Cambodia: “The Crisis Has Led Me To Develop More Flexible Learning Strategies”

As we celebrate World Teachers’ Day on 5 October 2020, we’d like to highlight their essential role in quality education. In the context of the current global crisis, many have had to adapt and reinvent the way they work. Chandy teaches children with disabilities in Cambodia and over the last six months, the impact of Covid-19 has changed her daily life and ways of teaching.

25-years-old mother-of-one Horm Chandy is a teacher in the village of Kravien, in Kampong Speu province, not far from the capital Phnom Penh. She works with children with disabilities, in a class developed by Aide et Action and Rabbit School Organisation, intended to integrate children with disabilites into public schools and offer them a more inclusive education. Following the COVID-19 crisis, she had to change her teaching methods………………………………………………………………………….